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carbamazepine KRAS pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Cross-domain hypothesis: Epilepsy drug → Pancreatic cancer outcome

Figure 1. Hypothesis chain: carbamazepine (binds to) KRAS (associated with) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Novel cross-domain hypothesis
Outreach score
0.300
Evidence A → B
1
papers
Evidence B → C
9
papers
Direct A → C
0
papers

Evidence network

The full set of scientific papers supporting this hypothesis, visualized as a force-directed graph. Each gray node is one paper; hover for the extracted claim, click to open it on PubMed.

Figure 2. Evidence network for carbamazepine → KRAS → pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Each gray node represents a scientific paper from the Robertium extraction. A→B edges show carbamazepine → KRAS claims; B→C edges show KRAS → pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma claims. Hover for details, click a paper to open PubMed.
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A→B papers (1)

  • PMID 38446332 — Impact of carbamazepine on SMARCA4 (BRG1) expression in colorectal cancer: modulation by KRAS mutation status (2024) · in silico docking simulation conf 0.70

B→C papers (9)

  • PMID 39999309 — Somatic Genomic Profiling of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas From a Diverse Cohort of Patients (2025) · pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma conf 0.95
  • PMID 39279379 — Hope on the Horizon: A Revolution in KRAS Inhibition Is Creating a New Treatment Paradigm for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer (2024) conf 0.90
  • PMID 35511415 — Comprehensive molecular profiling of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in <scp>FNA</scp>, biopsy, and resection specimens (2022) · in PDAC specimens conf 0.90
  • PMID 34905283 — Adequacy evaluation and use of pancreatic adenocarcinoma specimens for next‐generation sequencing acquired by endoscopic ultrasound–guided FNA and FNB (2021) · pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma conf 0.80
  • PMID 34665935 — Evaluation and diagnostic value of next‐generation sequencing analysis of residual liquid‐based cytology specimens of pancreatic masses (2021) · in residual LBC specimens of pancreatic masses conf 0.95
  • PMID 30611220 — Mutation analysis by deep sequencing of pancreatic juice from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (2019) · in pancreatic juice from patients with PDAC conf 0.80
  • PMID 28675654 — Bioinformatory‐assisted analysis of next‐generation sequencing data for precision medicine in pancreatic cancer (2017) · in PDAC patients conf 0.90
  • PMID 27929127 — Lipid-modified G4-decoy oligonucleotide anchored to nanoparticles: delivery and bioactivity in pancreatic cancer cells (2016) · mutated in >90% of cases conf 0.90
  • PMID 26669280 — Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA for molecular assessment in pancreatic cancer (2015) · in genomic landscape of PDAC conf 0.80

Clinical trials

0 registered trials for carbamazepine in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov

No registered trials found on ClinicalTrials.gov. This could indicate either an unexplored indication or a gap in registry coverage.

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Provenance trace

Full audit trail of how this hypothesis was generated: source papers, extracted claims, bridging logic, embedding model, and scoring. Every step is recorded and reproducible.

Provenance trace

Audit trail · carbamazepine → KRAS → pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

10 source papers, 10 extracted claims, scored by Swanson ABC chain.

Backfilled

Backfilled retroactively from DB state on 2026-05-13. The pipeline_run this row references was created by the backfill script, not by the actual generation orchestrator. Source papers, claims, scoring, and embedding config are recovered; generation-time metadata (exact git commit at gen time, host, exact command) is not recoverable.

1Source papers10
Filter
2Extracted claims10

Each row is one structured triple extracted by deepseek-v4-flash (prompt v1_2026_05_07, source: configured). Confidence is the LLM's self-rating.

  • carbamazepinebinds_toKRASA→B
    "in silico docking simulation"confidence 0.70· extraction run #20· claim #96881
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "in genomic landscape of PDAC"confidence 0.80· extraction run #17· claim #60199
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma"confidence 0.95· extraction run #17· claim #67935
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "mutated in >90% of cases"confidence 0.90· extraction run #17· claim #73191
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma"confidence 0.80· extraction run #23· claim #119405
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "in residual LBC specimens of pancreatic masses"confidence 0.95· extraction run #23· claim #119669
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "in PDAC patients"confidence 0.90· extraction run #23· claim #120169
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    confidence 0.90· extraction run #23· claim #123051
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "in pancreatic juice from patients with PDAC"confidence 0.80· extraction run #23· claim #128650
  • KRASassociated_withpancreatic ductal adenocarcinomaB→C
    "in PDAC specimens"confidence 0.90· extraction run #23· claim #131797
3Bridging logicSwanson ABC
Drug
carbamazepine
binds_to
1 paper
Mediator
KRAS
associated_with
9 papers
Outcome
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
edge_support_log_ab
log(ab + 1) = 0.693
edge_support_log_bc
log(bc + 1) = 2.303
novelty_factor
1.000 (no direct drug→outcome evidence — full novelty)
direct_a_to_c_count
0
4Embedding modelbge-m3

Embeddings are used at the L1 filtering stage to prune off-topic abstracts before claim extraction. They do not directly score the hypothesis.

model
bge-m3
dim
1024
max_length
8192 tokens
similarity_scores
No per-hypothesis cosine scores stored.
5Final scoringhigh · 0.300
method
swanson_abc_log_evidence_with_novelty_penalty
formula
score = min((log(ab+1) + log(bc+1)) * novelty / 10, 1.0); novelty = 1.0 if direct==0 else 0.7 / (direct+1)
raw score
0.2996
outreach score
0.2996
quality tier
high
Pipeline version
9996ffa
Pipeline run
id 4 · uuid eb8b7730…
Pipeline command
scripts/backfill_provenance_v2.py:v2_2026_05_12
Pipeline status
completed
Generated
2026-05-12 21:43:39 UTC
Schema version
1.0
Download full provenance JSON

The drug — carbamazepine

Source domain: Epilepsy · entity type: drug

The mediator — KRAS

Entity type: gene

The outcome — pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Target domain: Pancreatic cancer · entity type: disease

Evidence

Limited evidence base in our current extraction. Treat this hypothesis as a starting point for further literature review, not a settled conclusion.

A → B evidence: carbamazepine binds to KRAS

  • PMID 38446332 Impact of carbamazepine on SMARCA4 (BRG1) expression in colorectal cancer: modulation by KRAS mutation status (2024)

B → C evidence: KRAS associated with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

  • PMID 39999309 Somatic Genomic Profiling of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas From a Diverse Cohort of Patients (2025)
  • PMID 39279379 Hope on the Horizon: A Revolution in KRAS Inhibition Is Creating a New Treatment Paradigm for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer (2024)
  • PMID 35511415 Comprehensive molecular profiling of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in <scp>FNA</scp>, biopsy, and resection specimens (2022)
  • PMID 34905283 Adequacy evaluation and use of pancreatic adenocarcinoma specimens for next‐generation sequencing acquired by endoscopic ultrasound–guided FNA and FNB (2021)
  • PMID 34665935 Evaluation and diagnostic value of next‐generation sequencing analysis of residual liquid‐based cytology specimens of pancreatic masses (2021)
  • PMID 30611220 Mutation analysis by deep sequencing of pancreatic juice from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (2019)
  • PMID 28675654 Bioinformatory‐assisted analysis of next‐generation sequencing data for precision medicine in pancreatic cancer (2017)
  • PMID 27929127 Lipid-modified G4-decoy oligonucleotide anchored to nanoparticles: delivery and bioactivity in pancreatic cancer cells (2016)
  • PMID 26669280 Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA for molecular assessment in pancreatic cancer (2015)

References

All PMID-linked papers cited in the evidence network above, deduplicated and sorted by publication year.

  1. PMID 39999309 Somatic Genomic Profiling of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas From a Diverse Cohort of Patients (2025) B→C
  2. PMID 38446332 Impact of carbamazepine on SMARCA4 (BRG1) expression in colorectal cancer: modulation by KRAS mutation status (2024) A→B
  3. PMID 39279379 Hope on the Horizon: A Revolution in KRAS Inhibition Is Creating a New Treatment Paradigm for Patients with Pancreatic Cancer (2024) B→C
  4. PMID 35511415 Comprehensive molecular profiling of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in <scp>FNA</scp>, biopsy, and resection specimens (2022) B→C
  5. PMID 34905283 Adequacy evaluation and use of pancreatic adenocarcinoma specimens for next‐generation sequencing acquired by endoscopic ultrasound–guided FNA and FNB (2021) B→C
  6. PMID 34665935 Evaluation and diagnostic value of next‐generation sequencing analysis of residual liquid‐based cytology specimens of pancreatic masses (2021) B→C
  7. PMID 30611220 Mutation analysis by deep sequencing of pancreatic juice from patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (2019) B→C
  8. PMID 28675654 Bioinformatory‐assisted analysis of next‐generation sequencing data for precision medicine in pancreatic cancer (2017) B→C
  9. PMID 27929127 Lipid-modified G4-decoy oligonucleotide anchored to nanoparticles: delivery and bioactivity in pancreatic cancer cells (2016) B→C
  10. PMID 26669280 Clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA for molecular assessment in pancreatic cancer (2015) B→C

Limitations & disclaimer

This hypothesis was generated algorithmically through cross-domain literature analysis and has not been experimentally validated. Treat it as a starting point for further investigation, not a therapeutic recommendation. For established knowledge about each entity, refer to the authoritative sources linked above (Wikipedia, DrugBank, UniProt, MeSH).